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Read-only account. Ok, maybe just a comment here or there. And reposts, those are fine. Might as well add a profile pic. dammit

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Precisely.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Everything is at the tipping point, but never tips: books.google.com/ngrams/graph...
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Google Books Ngram Viewer
Google Ngrams: tipping point, 1800-2022
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Bearded Stoner @beardedstoner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When I check the news, I find lots of things. But I'm only ever looking for one thing.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Albert Camus, ‘The Fall’ (1956)...
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fye on’t! oh, fye! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely. ~ Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’ (1623) Poster #illustration by J&W Beggarstaff, 1894
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Like many fanatics, he wants the apocalypse so he and his friends can inherit the earth. Unlike most fanatics, he and his friends have the power to bring it about.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No, identifiable humans are responsible, not a machine, and those people should be criminally charged. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Nature is still there, nevertheless. Her calm skies and her reason oppose the folly of men. Until the atom bursts into flame, and history ends in the triumph of reason and the death agony of the species.” ~ Albert Camus, ‘Helen’s Exile’ (1942) #Photography, Café Les Deux Magots, Paris, 1945.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘Hanoi.’ #Photography (1967). From ‘Hanoi - Am Tage vor dem Frieden’ by Thomas Billhardt, 1973. #Vietnam
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Quickly come, Giant Meteor
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They want to trans your kids into furries. Send money now.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It all goes back to money in politics, which is amoral and tends toward the right. Elections don't solve the problem. If there were 100 Democratic senators, 51 would suddenly become Joe Manchin.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ok, I’m going from admirer to fan
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally some.good news
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Healthcare tax credits and ICE body cams are much more important
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ‘Maxims and Reflections’ (1833) #Painting, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Andy Warhol, 1982.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1. Take a random hippie you smoked weed with in 1976. 2. Marinate in Rush Limbaugh and Fox News for 50 years. 3. Don't even look.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pissed is such an idiot word. Could mean anything from mildly annoyed to enraged.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just as there are no redeeming qualities in millions of Americans.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Old age is a tyrant. Don't obey in advance.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As we get thrust into an unnecessary period of fascistic violence, war over resources, and the stripping of basic human services and dignity, the appeal of AI for the powerful isn’t just planning or war making, it’s creating a system that will do what they want and allow them to shirk all blame.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That antimatter didn’t annihilate matter at the big bang was a surprise
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‘Introduction To Perspective: That Is Of The Function Of The Eye, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1490)... #Painting (detail) by Leonardo da Vinci.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dreaming a landscape
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s cults all the way down. Read the whole thread.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NYT: “The big joke on democracy,” the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote in May 1928, “is that it provides its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction.” This is why Dems can't go back to business as usual.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hey, 3 legit followers, let's get these YT numbers way, way up: youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...
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216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The simplicity of truth
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good book by Will Bunch on this phenomenon: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
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After the Ivory Tower Falls ebook by Will Bunch - Rakuten Kobo
Read "After the Ivory Tower Falls How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It" by Will Bunch available from Rakuten Kobo. From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wil...
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Another good thread. The religion is ancient, as when "property rights" were extended to human ownership prior to 1865. That's always the goal.
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (1934)
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Bots have really upped their game lately…
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
AI does content-free text very well
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Made the mistake of following all in a starter pack. Now my feed has multiple posts that end in "what are we doing here."
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Repubs: Everyone's life should be as fucked up as my own
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
George Grosz, Pillars of Society. 1926. 100 years ago.
Three unpleasant men in suits and ties, a priest, a thug with a stick, all looking stern and cruel.grotesquely painted.
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Rep. Geoff Smith @missinglynxnh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Kafka himself would find this too absurd.
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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’ve heard of this, heard clips, but only just heard the whole thing. A masterpiece of clarity, even more horrifying for its restraint & suppressed rage, only broadcast because Dimbleby threatened to quit. 11 min audio. www.bbc.com/videos/c87z7...
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BBC Archive 1945: Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen
Richard Dimbleby describes the scenes of almost unimaginable horror that greeted him as he toured Belsen concentration camp shortly after its liberation by the British in April 1945.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Some people are like glass: useful, mundane, and almost invisible when whole. But if broken, very very dangerous.” ~ Jonathan Carroll (b. 1949) Cracked glass #sculpture by Simon Berger.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Men follow only those who give them illusions. There have never been gatherings around a disillusioned.” ~ Emil Cioran (1911-1995) #Painting, Aaron Westerberg, ‘Distant Thoughts.’
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. ~ Lao Tzu (5th century BC) #Photography, Bruno Aveillan.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#Photography via La Hija del Molinero.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Both sides? Explain your nuanced approach
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down in Florida somewhere @downinflorida.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Time to re-read this: www.gutenberg.org/files/3172/3...
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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, by Mark Twain
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